Posts Made By: Jose Suro

Congratulations on your new camera! I'm having a blast with mine. From the image I can tell everything's working fine. However, I think you clipped the highlights and the dark areas too much and lost detail because of the high contrast. I bet there's a lot more data in the raw images.

As far as the Losmandy mount, I read somewhere that they might require mechanical relays to work with the SBIG cameras. Are you using them?

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

A great shot Wes! Excellent detail and texture on the floor of the crater - WTG. Great to see you posting again...

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Congratulations on the excellent images!

I did some research on your images, including extracting the single Venus image, enlarging it 4X and placing it on a black background. This clearly shows the "bulge" that Lomonosov referred to in his obeservations. It is this "bulge" that led him to conclude that Venus had an athmosphere. I hope you don't mind that I have posted the enlarged image below.

Here's Lomonosov's account of the event:

"On Venus leaving the Sun’s disc, when its leading edge started to get near to the edge of the Sun and was to the naked eye about a tenth of the diameter of Venus away, there appeared on the edge of the Sun a bulge which showed itself more clearly the nearer Venus got to exit [...]

Complete exit, or the final contact of the trailing edge of Venus with the Sun, was also attended by a certain indentation and a blurring of the Sun’s edge. On making this observation Councillor Lomonosov concluded that the planet Venus was surrounded by a considerable airy atmosphere of the same nature (if not bigger) than that which envelops our earth since the loss of clarity on the well-defined edge of the Sun just before the arrival of Venus itself upon the Sun’s surface signifies the arrival of the Venusian atmosphere onto the edge of the Sun. [...] As Venus was exiting, the touching of its leading edge produced a bulge. These things show nothing other than the refraction of rays of light in the atmosphere of Venus."

Then complete text can be found here:


http://www.jacobite.org.uk/ellis/planets.pdf

Again, congratulations on the great shots.

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Outstanding image Roland. The most detail I've ever seen in IC5070.

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Outstanding Jim!

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Excellent image Mark! And you can get to it by hitting refresh on the browser. I have the same problem.

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Excellent Processing Mark! I'm glad you had a clear night. I had two clear nights last week - the first ones in over a month - but my deck was torn up due to major remodeling. We did get our pier base in today, even with 1.5 inches of the rain. A four foot deep hole with 1100 pounds of concrete. Next it's an 8-foot paver circle and walkway to the pier. I'll have some pics of the setup when I'm done.

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Absolutely incredible! Wes, I've got to tell you, you might as well quit now 'cause it will never get better than that!

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

Paul, Now I can see why you've given up nights. That's most probably the best image I've seen you take. And you take excellent images. Congratulations! The full disk is APOD material.

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

under clouds and haze now for 57 days

Outstanding Mark! - Congratulations.

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Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida